
99% of Children in Foster Care Count on Medicaid: Here’s How Funding Cuts Could Disrupt Their Access to Care
Cuts to Medicaid would mean cutting critical support and services for children in foster care in Arkansas and their families.
Cuts to Medicaid would mean cutting critical support and services for children in foster care in Arkansas and their families.
Medicaid coverage is connected to better health and lower rates of disability over time.
Over the next 10 years, Arkansans would lose nearly $10 billion in health care coverage.
Lack of insurance, not Medicaid coverage, is a well-documented risk factor for poor health.
The budget proposals would be extremely harmful. And they do nothing to fulfill elected officials’ promises of easing economic burdens or bringing down the price of groceries.
Our leaders must take Medicaid funding cuts off the table.
We are working to highlight the impact of Medicaid in Arkansas communities through stories of lived experience.
We have been heading in the wrong direction when it comes to child health insurance trends, and it’s time to turn things around.
New data from the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) reveals what advocates have warned: Arkansas’s refusal to extend Pregnancy Medicaid coverage to 12 months postpartum is leaving thousands of mothers without critical health insurance coverage just weeks after...
Medicaid is an essential health insurance program that provides coverage to hundreds of thousands of Arkansans.